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This document is based on the OpenBravo legal aspects document.
The current gvSIG official projects copyright holder is the gvSIG Association. Any contribution to the gvSIG project requires to sign our contributor’s agreement and send it by regular mail or by fax to gvSIG (this is an unfortunate consequence of copyright law in some jurisdictions). This requirement does not apply to external modules, localizations, documentation, except if they are contributed to us. It only applies to contributions that will be part of the core products.
The objective of contributor agreement is to protect the integrity of the project, its users and developers. The contributor agreement transfers the contributor’s copyright to gvSIG who grants a non-exclusive license back to allow the contributor to use his/her own work. The rationale behind the agreement is:
Contributor’s agreements are standard procedure in open source projects followed by projects ranging from the Free Software Foundation to the OpenOffice.org project, including the Apache project, on which this agreement is loosely based.
If you are not contributing code within the framework of a company or an institution, (i.e. your work is done as an individual), you have just to sign the contribution agreement and send it to the gvSIG Association.
If you are a company, please ensure that someone authorised to sign on behalf of the company signs the agreement and lists the names of people that agreements covers. This is usually done by a senior manager in the organization. This helps to reduce the number of individuals agreements to be signed.
If you have any question regarding this contract please contact us gvsig-legal@gvsig.com.
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